Word: core
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Another short-changing of literature and life to which Epstein object is ideology at either the heart of a novel or the core of criticism. Borrowing Clauswitz's definition of war, he accuses Doctorow and Coover of using literature to wage "politics by other means." He devotes four essays to rehabilitating the reputations of James G. Cozzens, John Dos Passo Var. Wyck Brooks, and Willa Cather, all of whom be considers unjustly neglected by the prejudice of liberal critics. Cather he "rescues" from the crown of lesbianism...
...strolling Care Bears could lure visitors outside. The weather also diminished opportunities for the festival's oldest and most assiduously recorded sideshow: the ritual display of starlet flesh. Young women desiring to disrobe in public were forced to go high tech. Isabelle Solar, chief ornament of the French soft-core epic Joan, could be seen on the closed-circuit hotel TV network slipping into a steamy bubble bath. In other respects, Cannes voyeurism may be entering the Workout '80s. The town summoned its largest turnout of gawkers for a midnight chorus line of musclewomen from the American documentary Pumping Iron...
Rock musicians revived the shirts again in the '70s, partly because the island of Maui became a heavy hangout and partly out of the counterculture reflex to challenge prevailing standards of taste. Today there is a hard core of fanatics who collect the shirts as if they were first editions and value them as what Eliot Hubbard, Publicity Director of CBS's Epic Records, calls "high art." Hubbard's shirt stash which, at 300 and counting, he claims is "the third biggest in the world," goes heavy on popular florals. "My tastes," he says, "run to big botanicals...
Wall Street analysts are often critical of corporate mergers because they mismatch corporate talent and know-how. But they were enthusiastic about the new Allied Signal, especially since Hennessy plans to sell some of the less profitable divisions in order to concentrate on aerospace. As the core business of both Allied and Signal, that group is expected to contribute more than 40% of total profits. After the planned divestitures, Allied Signal should have some $2.5 billion in cash on hand. "This is uncommon," says Frank Prezelski, an analyst at Shearson Lehman American Express. "The typical acquisition leaves the combined company...
These problems can make transferring to any school difficult. But what can make life even more frustrating for the approximately 30 students who transfer yearly to Harvard is the lack of immediate space in one of the residential Houses, commonly seen as the core of the Harvard experience...